Garmin GPS 500 Pilot's Manual & Reference

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GPS 500 Pilot’s Guide and Reference8-2SECTION 8AUX PAGES8.2 FLIGHT PLANNING PAGEThe Flight Planning Page (Figure 8-4) provides access(via ‘menu options’) to E6B functions for fuel planning,trip planning, density altitude/true airspeed/winds aloftcalculations, and a ‘Crossfill’ function to transfer flightplans/user waypoints to a second 400/500-series Garminunit. When a menu option is selected, the correspondingpage appears providing additional information andfeatures.Figure 8-4 Flight Planning PageCurrent Page GroupMenu Options (to Select,Highlight with Cursor andPress the ENT Key)Position ofCurrent Pagewithin CurrentPage GroupNumber of Pages inCurrent Page GroupSelecting a menu option from the FlightPlanning Page:1) Press the small right knob momentarily, toactivate the flashing cursor (Figure 8-4).2) Turn the large right knob to select the desiredmenu option.3) Press the ENT Key (Figure 8-5) to display thedesired page.Figure 8-5 Density Alt/TAS/Winds PageThe following menu options are available:• Fuel Planning - When equipped with fuel flow(FF) and/or fuel on board (FOB) sensors, thisoption displays current fuel conditions alongthe active direct-to or flight plan. The pilot mayalso manually enter fuel flow, ground speed (GS)and (in some instances) fuel on board figures forplanning purposes. Fuel planning figures can bedisplayed not only for the currently active flightplan or direct-to, but also point-to-point betweentwo specified waypoints and for any programmedflight plan.Fuel planning figures can be entered anddisplayed based upon one of three possibleconfigurations:♦ No fuel sensors connected - In this instancefuel flow is manually entered and is usedto calculate fuel on board. When fuel flowor fuel on board is manually entered, thefigures are retained the next time the page isdisplayed (with fuel on board continuouslyrecalculated).190-00181-60 Rev. G